SkeletorUpInHere:Guys, I live in South Florida, and I looked for a job as a police officer, but I didn't get it. Went on 5 different interviews.

I'm in decent shape, I received a 97 on my CJBAT, and I speak spanish (a little choppy, but well enough).

How can I not get a job if these shmucks are the ones they are hiring!?!?

Don't be too upset about it. Florida is a pit with low hiring standards.My former roommate (<------ read: Uberbiatch) was working in Wisconsin in a law enforcement job. She was always one step from being booted out for pure stupidity. Add to it that most people knew she was getting her weekly supply of coke from the married guy she was screwing.

Zoom ahead to her application to the Florida Highway Patrol. She's a valued employee there now.

If you speak Spanish and nothing major on your background (felony, etc), there are plenty of depts (not in Florida) that would hire you.

occamswrist:Bit'O'Gristle: Bad supervision, as the fatass SGT was doing the same shiat the officer was doing. Humping their respective mate / farking off. As a LEO, this pisses me off, not only does it tarnish a already tarnished reputation of all police officers, but other officers had to cover the calls, which took them out of their area of patrol, and put those people, and the responding officers in danger. They should be fired and have to pay back the cash they were paid for all the times they farked off while not doing their jobs. If you don't want to respond to calls, find another job. There are people out there, your fellow officers included, who need you there. Assholes.

And...you are not on the clock while posting to fark I hope?

Unlike all the computer geeks and office jockeys who are wasting most of the day on here right now?

I remember reading somewhere that police departments shy away from bright applicants and overachievers. Their reasoning behind that is that the applicant would get too bored and quit after the department spent quite a bit of money on the training. Well, that is what they said the reasoning was. So I guess they are comfortable with middle to low IQ cops. After 54 years on this rock, I have yet to run into a bright local LEO. Some may have been pleasant, but zero very smart. Most were cocky liars with outlandish stories.

tukatz:occamswrist: Bit'O'Gristle: Bad supervision, as the fatass SGT was doing the same shiat the officer was doing. Humping their respective mate / farking off. As a LEO, this pisses me off, not only does it tarnish a already tarnished reputation of all police officers, but other officers had to cover the calls, which took them out of their area of patrol, and put those people, and the responding officers in danger. They should be fired and have to pay back the cash they were paid for all the times they farked off while not doing their jobs. If you don't want to respond to calls, find another job. There are people out there, your fellow officers included, who need you there. Assholes.

And...you are not on the clock while posting to fark I hope?

Unlike all the computer geeks and office jockeys who are wasting most of the day on here right now?

To be fair, nobody is trying to get the computer geeks and office jockeys to show up at crime scenes...

99.998er:I remember reading somewhere that police departments shy away from bright applicants and overachievers. Their reasoning behind that is that the applicant would get too bored and quit after the department spent quite a bit of money on the training. Well, that is what they said the reasoning was. So I guess they are comfortable with middle to low IQ cops. After 54 years on this rock, I have yet to run into a bright local LEO. Some may have been pleasant, but zero very smart. Most were cocky liars with outlandish stories.

When DHS started it's pantswetting in 2011, they started by staffing the TSA with highly qualified, mentaly stable, educated, and experiaenced individuals from a huge applicant base. We spent $55K( Fifty Five Farking Thousand Dollars) per applicant just testing, hiring and training each and every one.In six months on the job, 37% of them quit.Now TSA hires from TV and pizza boxes.You do the math.

"In the late 1980's, nearly 10 percent of the entire Miami Police Department (Florida) was suspended or fired after a drug-related scandal"

Which was cops smuggling heroin.

Which was City of Miami, not the County. I hate slug cops. I happily hump calls all night without a complaint, I like being busy at work. What really gets frustrating is the guys like this who sit on a call for longer than they have to and duck calls because they don't want to write a report. I couldn't tell you how many times I've left food that was just served or just thrown money at a store clerk for a bottle of water as I ran out to my car for an emergency call and I've only been on for 4 years. These kinds of officers are more than just slackers, they're an officer safety hazard. They get other officers hurt.

SkeletorUpInHere:Guys, I live in South Florida, and I looked for a job as a police officer, but I didn't get it. Went on 5 different interviews.

I'm in decent shape, I received a 97 on my CJBAT, and I speak spanish (a little choppy, but well enough).

How can I not get a job if these shmucks are the ones they are hiring!?!?

Hate to tell you this, buddy. But it's not them, it's you. Standards for hiring are kind of low right now; some departments aren't even paying incentive for college degrees. Departments in South Florida are mainly hiring certified applicants, meaning you paid your way through the academy so they don't have to. I was lucky to get hired and put through the academy by my department.

Some of the rookies we have coming in shouldn't have been hired. I know of one rookie down here who was fired while still on FTO for doing traffic stops off-duty in his personal vehicle. I once had to transport a drunk who had been an independent at the academy in the class behind mine and for no reason he kicked out my window; I wasn't even the officer who arrested him. Do you think that these guys should be a cops?

You can be super-applicant, but if you can't do the interview, if you have some kind of record, if you mess up the psych exam, fail the polygraph, or just rub the background investigator the wrong way; you won't get picked up. By all means, keep trying to get hired; just be ready to accept that it just might not happen.

Bit'O'Gristle:Bad supervision, as the fatass SGT was doing the same shiat the officer was doing. Humping their respective mate / farking off. As a LEO, this pisses me off, not only does it tarnish a already tarnished reputation of all police officers, but other officers had to cover the calls, which took them out of their area of patrol, and put those people, and the responding officers in danger. They should be fired and have to pay back the cash they were paid for all the times they farked off while not doing their jobs. If you don't want to respond to calls, find another job. There are people out there, your fellow officers included, who need you there. Assholes.

I've had you favorited for a long time. Posts like this only reinforce that I was correct. We may argue in the future, but I wish more all police were like you. I'd be honored to be busted by an honest hard-working cop. Also, props for Dog Man. He seems to get it.

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER:Bit'O'Gristle: Bad supervision, as the fatass SGT was doing the same shiat the officer was doing. Humping their respective mate / farking off. As a LEO, this pisses me off, not only does it tarnish a already tarnished reputation of all police officers, but other officers had to cover the calls, which took them out of their area of patrol, and put those people, and the responding officers in danger. They should be fired and have to pay back the cash they were paid for all the times they farked off while not doing their jobs. If you don't want to respond to calls, find another job. There are people out there, your fellow officers included, who need you there. Assholes.

I've had you favorited for a long time. Posts like this only reinforce that I was correct. We may argue in the future, but I wish more all police were like you. I'd be honored to be busted by an honest hard-working cop. Also, props for Dog Man. He seems to get it.

One page one of the Human Resources Hiring Manual, Rule One is never hire anyone better than you.

Dog Man:Because People in power are Stupid: It's considered one of the worst incidents of delinquency in the department's history

Nope, https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=193782

"In the late 1980's, nearly 10 percent of the entire Miami Police Department (Florida) was suspended or fired after a drug-related scandal"

Which was cops smuggling heroin.

Which was City of Miami, not the County. I hate slug cops. I happily hump calls all night without a complaint, I like being busy at work. What really gets frustrating is the guys like this who sit on a call for longer than they have to and duck calls because they don't want to write a report. I couldn't tell you how many times I've left food that was just served or just thrown money at a store clerk for a bottle of water as I ran out to my car for an emergency call and I've only been on for 4 years. These kinds of officers are more than just slackers, they're an officer safety hazard. They get other officers hurt.

SkeletorUpInHere: Guys, I live in South Florida, and I looked for a job as a police officer, but I didn't get it. Went on 5 different interviews.

I'm in decent shape, I received a 97 on my CJBAT, and I speak spanish (a little choppy, but well enough).

How can I not get a job if these shmucks are the ones they are hiring!?!?

Hate to tell you this, buddy. But it's not them, it's you. Standards for hiring are kind of low right now; some departments aren't even paying incentive for college degrees. Departments in South Florida are mainly hiring certified applicants, meaning you paid your way through the academy so they don't have to. I was lucky to get hired and put through the academy by my department.

Some of the rookies we have coming in shouldn't have been hired. I know of one rookie down here who was fired while still on FTO for doing traffic stops off-duty in his personal vehicle. I once had to transport a drunk who had been an independent at the academy in the class behind mine and for ...

The problem is, I have a full time job, and I can't afford to pay my way through the academy. I have no background of criminal behavior, no drug problems.

I'm a white, fully functional male who works hard to get ahead, and it's just not happening. I'm not a racist by any means, but I feel that being white is a disadvantage for jobs.

Maybe that comes across in your interviews. I wouldn't hire a white guy who thinks he is a world class candidate who works really hard to get ahead etc etc Who ultimately seems to throw his hands in the air and say racism is holding back.

kindms:SkeletorUpInHere: but I feel that being white is a disadvantage for jobs

Maybe that comes across in your interviews. I wouldn't hire a white guy who thinks he is a world class candidate who works really hard to get ahead etc etc Who ultimately seems to throw his hands in the air and say racism is holding back.

Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are.

I have taken many public speaking classes in college and grad school. Managed for multiple companies. I have given speeches in front of hundreds of people, dozens of times. I know the interview process.What would you say if I said I was told by my buddy who works for the same force that I went to an interview on, that I didn't get the job because they are looking for more minority candidates.

I understand different firms have to be diverse, and I think that's a good thing, but as a candidate, you don't always want to hear that's the reason.

Bit'O'Gristle:Bad supervision, as the fatass SGT was doing the same shiat the officer was doing. Humping their respective mate / farking off. As a LEO, this pisses me off, not only does it tarnish a already tarnished reputation of all police officers, but other officers had to cover the calls, which took them out of their area of patrol, and put those people, and the responding officers in danger. They should be fired and have to pay back the cash they were paid for all the times they farked off while not doing their jobs. If you don't want to respond to calls, find another job. There are people out there, your fellow officers included, who need you there. Assholes.

As a LEO, I second that emotion. I'm guessing the other cops that had to handle their workload were the ones who got Internal Affairs on the case. If so, good for them.